Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s campaign is going on the attack against his opponent, Terry McAuliffe, over why the Democratic candidate’s company chose not to build a plant in Virginia.

GreenTech, McAuliffe’s electric car company, looked at building its new plant in Virginia but ultimately chose a site in Mississippi.

In a release obtained by POLITICO, Cuccinelli’s campaign is charging that McAuliffe has changed his story about what happened.

“Terry McAuliffe is definitely in the car sales business, because first he falsely claimed that Virginia wasn’t interested in his car company and now he’s blaming his company for the decision,” Cuccinelli campaign manager David Rexrode writes in the release. “Given that Terry McAuliffe was the Chairman of the GreenTech, he only has himself to blame for creating jobs in Mississippi that could have been created in Virginia.”

The question of why GreenTech chose Mississippi has come up before in the Virginia governor’s race, and Cuccinelli’s campaign is likely to keep hammering away at it.

At a December news conference, McAuliffe said that Virginia officials weren’t interested in having GreenTech build its plant in the state.

“That’s their choice. Other states — I think Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi — have a very aggressive [effort] to bring manufacturing in. Obviously, Virginia was my first choice,” he said.

The Associated Press reviewed emails between state and GreenTech officials and reported in December that, while the state initially wasn’t enthusiastic about the company’s project, GreenTech did not provide Virginia officials with enough details about the project for the state to respond with a potential package of economic incentives.

In an interview with WAMU-FM last Friday, McAuliffe implied that the decision to build in Mississippi was not his. GreenTech’s board of directors made the call, he said.

“Listen, the folks who were in charge of moving it, they had many meetings down there. How you decide to move a plant comes down to incentives and what you need to do,” he said. “They made the decision, the company made the decision, to go there.”

One of Cuccinelli’s accusations against McAuliffe does appear off-base. The Republican’s news release claims that McAuliffe blamed Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell for turning away GreenTech’s project. But at his December news conference, McAuliffe fingered a board of state officials, not the governor himself.

McAuliffe campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin said the premise of Cuccinelli’s attack is misleading.

“On the eve of his book release, you’d think Ken Cuccinelli would be touting his treatise on the evils of public pools, Social Security, and Medicare instead of making false and desperate attacks in an attempt to change the subject,” he said.